The public has heard Dr. Dre’s records and seen him on television, but few really know how he got there. That is, except for one man: Bruce Williams, Dre’s personal assistant/go-to guy for almost 15 years. As Williams says of himself in his new unauthorized look into the world of…
One of the trends in punk rock that I happen to enjoy very much is how influences shape a 30-plus-year-old genre. C’mon, there’s only so much one can do with three chords, right? Well, Miami’s Boy Prostitute has definitely taken cues from the Ramones’ playbook and injected the chords with…
When you first pop in Cat Shell’s debut disc, Cat’s Outta the Bag, you can’t help but notice the retro sound of the lead-off track, “I’m Torn.” It’s full of simple and subtle guitar work, winsome sax, and the alluring vocal style that Shell is turning into her trademark. Although…
Barcelona, Spain-based duo the Pinker Tones uses its nonconformist Catalan background as something of an excuse for its unconventional approach toward music. On their third full-length, Wild Animals, Professor Manso and Mr. Furia channel their eccentricities through electronics with a decided pop bent. Straight-up pop anthems such as “Happy Everywhere”…
On early single “Elvis,” These New Puritans promised to tell their secrets. Yet Beat Pyramid, their debut record, is as inscrutable and cryptic as hieroglyphics. The album’s 16 tracks take the listener on a labyrinthine journey full of false starts, dead ends, and unexpected detours. There are scattered, overt references…
All right, all right, so this is billed, officially, as a celebration of local music culture of all genres and scenes. But it takes place at famously freewheeling Churchill’s and is curated by the infamous Notorious Nastie. And it goes down, um, April 20. That’s 4/20, and past experience shows…
The Bamboozle Roadshow 2008 Saves the Day, Armor for Sleep, Set Your Goals, Metro Station, Lydia Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Revolution Live Better Than: Trading a flash of boobs and a blow job for concert tickets on Craigslist. If partially-bleached bangs cover half your face, chances are, you were at…
Last year, local liquor giant Bacardi threw its hat into the music-event ring with the first edition of B-Live, an all-day, rum-fueled shebang at Bayfront Park’s ampitheater. It featured a host of unexpected artist pairings, including headliner Paul Oakenfold playing live, accompanied by a full orchestra. Although the event was…
For the last couple of days, there was a lot of buzz all over the Internet, and even locally on the radio (93 ROCK) that Mötley Crüe were to make some sort of special announcement live last night at 7 p.m. And, okay, no band would announce something SUPER-devastating or…
by ANDY VIHSTADT Voice of the Beehive Wolf Parade announced details on the yet-to-be-titled (rumored Kissing the Beehive) second LP last week. The album does’t come out until June 16, but you can get a preview below courtesy of Stereogum. Wolf Parade: “Call it a Ritual” MP3 Docudrama For your…
If you want to go pay your respects to Mother Booker, the eclectic mother of reggae legend Bob Marley, all the info that you’ll need is below in the press release. –Jonathan Cunningham Cedella Marley Booker Memorial Service for the South Florida Community Set for April 15 at Fairchild Cedella…
Iron and Wine April 12, 2008 Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: A cellarful of John Henry. Saturday night at Revolution, the 999 other keen-eared indie music types in attendance formed, perhaps, the best-behaved bunch of rock club attendees I’ve ever encountered. The object of their focus: Sam Beam, the man…
Tego Calderon MySpace Latino’s “Show Secreto” with Tego Calderón with Locos Por Juana, Circo, and Beto Cuevas Friday, April 11 Studio A, Miami Better Than: Putting your iPod on shuffle You can’t manufacture cool — it has to happen naturally. Case in point: Last Friday evening, Myspace Latino’s Miami launch…
Ivon David Rojas Click here to see a slide show of the concert. A vociferous crowd nearly blew the roof off the building Saturday night with an impromtu, pre-concert rendition of Juanes’ Me Enamora that shook American Airlines Arena. Over 20,000 voices sang along to a skit on dual video…
That sounds like an odd performance request, but according to this story, he’s onboard to perform at the Mandela’s 90th birthday party this summer. The article doesn’t speak too highly of Eminem and you can almost hear the detractors and gay rights activists who will probably jump all over this…
Tego Calderón with Locos por Juana, Circo, and Beto Cuevas Friday, April 11 Studio A, 60 NE 11th St., Miami. Show starts at 8 p.m.; free with registration on MySpace Ages 18+ with ID 305-358-7625, www.studioamiami.com The folks at Myspace are releasing a full bilingual version of their social networking…
Jenny Laura was thrust on stage to sing Gloria Estefan’s ‘Mi Tierra’ minutes after arriving at CocoWalk in Coconut Grove Wednesday night for a quick sound check. But her crystal clear chops did more than put a smile on the sound engineer’s face – they also helped the Columbian singer/songwriter…
Click here to listen to a track from Golem. Toss a rock out your window these days, and it seems very likely to bonk the noggin of someone who leads a folk-punk group straight out of a Balkan or Ukrainian bazaar. Perhaps Gogol Bordello madman Eugene Hütz. Or dapper DeVotchKa…
We expect a lot from our indie-ethos, crossover pop stars nowadays, even from a duo as inspired as Gnarls Barkley, a.k.a. DJ Danger Mouse and rapper Cee-Lo. We expect guilt-free yet radio-worthy earworms such as “Crazy,” plus genuine pathos, groundbreaking production and minimal amounts of filler, all of which GB…
Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor makes the most of his recent hard-won freedom on the two-disc, all-instrumental Ghosts I-IV. It’s the kind of record Interscope probably wouldn’t have allowed Reznor to release when he was under contract — not only because it lacks vocals but also because it…
Belying its hideous cover art and silly title, Do You Like Rock Music? is a work of surprising depth and invention. The third album from the pallid, Brighton-based Brits who go by the name of British Sea Power falls squarely within the tradition of big, rousing British rock albums —…
All of my life, my father encouraged me to be open to all good music,” St. Louis rapper Black Spade sings on the intro to his debut album, To Serve with Love. On his MySpace page, he reaffirms his dad’s influence on this genre-defying new work, describing the sound as…
